Category: Nails

I recently picked up one of Maybelline’s new Color Show Street Artist nail polishes in White Splatter and I am so in love! It’s a great way to spice up a manicure without having to spend much time on it. I’m wearing it here over the top of Barry M’s Berry Ice Cream and I think it looks great.

This polish has matte white bar glitter; matte white small, medium and large hexagonal glitter; medium blue, green and purple hexagonal glitter as well as tiny white and purple dots. As you can tell this has A LOT of glitters which is great because it means it transfers onto the nails really easily, meaning you don’t have to play about trying to fish glitter out of the clear polish. What you see on my nails here is one swipe of polish. Pretty great huh?!

I haven’t seen any nail polishes like this from any other brands yet but I’m really loving this paint splatter effect. The quality of this Maybelline one is so good I think I might have to go and pick up the other colours….

I recently picked up this new China Glaze polish in Luxe and Lush so of course I had to try it out straight away!! It’s one of those flaky effect polishes which I think are so pretty, and such an easy way to make it look like you’ve put a lot of effort into your manicure when you really haven’t.

I paired it with this deep navy polish in Aye Aye Sailor from Rimmel, which brings out the gorgeous copper tones in the top coat. I can’t wait to try out other polish combinations to see what other colours show up in this flaky.

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Time for another Instagram collage I think! I did one of these a while back just on some random pictures from my life and you guys seemed to like it so here’s one that is a little more beauty focused – nail of the day pictures to be exact!

As part of my #thefallinspired series I picked out my favourite lip colours for this season and this is the nail counterpart to that post. Some of these colours I have posted previously on Instagram so I have included those pictures below in case you haven’t seen them (you can follow me on Instagram here).

I’m actually craving much lighter, airier polishes lately but since I don’t own many of those colours I fell back to my staples for this time of year, which seem to include a number of purples…

On my nails currently is Rimmel Deliciously Dark with 17 Cosmic Heather over the top. Unfortunately you can’t buy Cosmic Heather in store, which is a shame because it’s gorgeous and I haven’t found anything else like it. It’s a bronzy shimmer in a sheer purple base, great on its own but equally lovely over darker colours. Deliciously Dark is a long time favourite and is a deep eggplant purple with a cream finish.

OPI Dutch ‘Ya Just Love OPI – I think this colour is particularly appropriate for October. Something about the shade of purple just makes me think Halloween. Perfect if you want to wear something a bit more colourful without being too in-your-face bright. Perfect for if you are a bit bored of wearing darker colours on your tips.

OPI Meet Me On The Star Ferry – A lovely warm plummy-brown. This has a beautiful, almost metallic finish with a golden shimmer running through it.

OPI The World Is Not Enough – This was part of the James Bond Skyfall collection and a huge favourite of mine last year. Pictures don’t do this colour justice. It’s a taupy-silver purple, a little on the sheer side, but it looks gorgeous worn sheer or built up to full opacity. It has a ton of shimmer in it which catches the light so beautifully.

China Glaze Midtown Magic – A blackened chocolate brown. This is one of those shades that is so dark it looks almost black from a distance. It’s not until you see it close up or it catches the light that you see the depth of the colour and the copper and gold shimmer.

Essie Bordeaux – A beautiful, almost jelly finish blood red. This is my favourite pick of the bunch. I love Essie nail polishes and definitely want to expand my collection.

Purple is my favourite colour and this nail polish by Sally Hansen is one of my all time favourite purple polishes. It’s the perfect mix purple and grey tones, has a cream finish and isn’t too in-your-face bright. I love it.

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I have to say, as much as I’m looking forward to the Autumn/Winter seasons this nail polish just called out to me. I mean who could turn down this beautiful green-tealcolour?!

I actually wanted to get just this colour from Essies’ new Summer collection but when I went to Boots they didn’t have it in stock. They only had the mini set, so in my eagerness to try this polish out I grabbed the set of 3 for £9.99 instead. You can buy the set here.

I haven’t tried Full Steam Aheadyet but I’ve got Sunday Funday on my toes, and even though its a lot sheerer it’s still a gorgeous colour that’s very appropriate for summer. But Naughty Nautical is definitely the winner from this collection in my eyes.

First off, the application is amazing. Even though its a mini polish the brush is full size and so easy to work with. The formula is incredible too, the colour glides on evenly and is so smooth and very almost opaque in one coat…. One coat!! I used 2 coats for the swatches so you get the full affect but you could easily get away with one slightly thicker coat. The polish looks like it has some fine silver glitter to it but you don’t notice it much on the nail and it doesn’t make it a pain to remove. It comes off very much like a cream finish would, the sparkle just adds something extra.

I will just say, the polish started chipping the following morning and by the following evening the polish on both my ring fingers had come clean off in one lot despite using Seche Vite. But I think that was more to do with what awful condition my nails are in rather than a reflection of the polish. But let me know if you have had a similar problem with your polish.

All in all I think this is a beautiful nail polish and one I would definitely recommend for the remaining summer months.